City, the richest football club in the world, have laid a mural depicting star new signing Emmanuel Adebayor on the floor of Manchester's famous shopping mall the Arndale Centre.
Blue is the colour: Man City's attempt at promoting their fixture against Arsenal in the Arndale Centre
Togo striker Adebayor, 25, has scored two goals in three Premier League matches for mega-rich City since his £25million summer move from Arsenal and the Eastlands club have wasted no time in capitalising on his success to promote their clash with Arsenal this weekend.
Quite how fans of bitter rivals United will react to the giant advert ahead of the Manchester derby at Old Trafford a week on Sunday, is yet to be seen.
Some supporters of the Red Devils failed to see the funny side when City erected a poster on Deansgate celebrating the capture of Carlos Tevez after his departure from Old Trafford, proclaiming ‘Welcome to Manchester’.
Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson branded a billboard erected by Eastlands' fans ‘stupid and arrogant’.
Some United fans used rolled up socks daubed in red paint to smear the poster and Ferguson added: 'It's City isn't it? They are a small club, with a small mentality.
‘All they can talk about is Manchester United, that's all they've done and they can't get away from it.
'It is a go at us, that's the one thing it is. They think taking Tevez away from Manchester United is a triumph. It is poor stuff. I thought he would go to City a long time ago.' (dailymail)
Poster boy: Manchester City's provocative Carlos Tevez poster